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Juruena turned music: Cultural festival to discuss the future of the basin

By Giovanny Vera 16 de October de 201514 de September de 2020

The II Juruena Vivo Festival led to the city important reflections on the fate of sub-basin of the Juruena river – threatened by predatory activities and the prediction of the presence of more than 102 hydroelectric plants

Tapajos river mega dams again postponed by the Brazilian government

By Mark Smith 14 de October de 201514 de September de 2020

The São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric, which once had the start of their operations planned for January 2016 is now projected to run from 2021.

400+ dams could irrevocably harm Amazon ecology — but solutions exist

By Giovanny Vera 9 de September de 201514 de September de 2020

Dams planned for the Amazon and its tributaries could do irreversible harm to fish migrations and to wildlife — but energy solutions ranging from run-of-the-river dams to a shift to solar and wind power could safeguard the forest.

Chadin II, the Odebrecht’s mega hydroelectric that will flood the Maranon river

By Giovanny Vera 24 de August de 201514 de September de 2020

The Brazilian company, involved in a huge corruption case in Brazil, will build a dam that will flood towns of Cajamarca and Amazonas regions, and will displace thousand people.

David & Goliath: Locals resist multinational dams, mines—sometimes win

By Giovanny Vera 10 de August de 201514 de September de 2020

Across Peru, the central government and multinational corporations have come up against fierce resistance from local, typically rural, communities opposed to large dam and mining projects.

Amazon Headwaters Under Siege: 19 dams slated for Napo watershed

By Giovanny Vera 5 de August de 201514 de September de 2020

Fed by snow from the glaciated volcanic peaks of the Andes Mountains, and by rainwater falling on steamy lowland Ecuadorian rainforests, this vast stretch of Amazonia supports diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, with significant unstudied flora and fauna.

The Amazon rots in new hydroelectric plants lakes

By Giovanny Vera 3 de August de 201514 de September de 2020

Teles Pires power plant violated environmental plan and flooded the reservoir with trees inside. Decomposition must issue large amounts of methane, the greenhouse gas.

Mega-dams doing drastic harm to tropical biodiversity: study

By Giovanny Vera 29 de July de 201514 de September de 2020

Researchers with the University of East Anglia say the full extent of impacts to biodiversity of large hydroelectric dams in lowland tropical forest regions have been “severely overlooked”.

Indigenous communities in protected areas in Bolivia refuse dam

By Giovanny Vera 21 de July de 201514 de September de 2020

Communities asserts that the dam will threaten to disappear and require prior consultation before the project starts.

Biodiversity of islands succumbs in lakes of hydroelectrics

By Giovanny Vera 6 de July de 201514 de September de 2020

Study reveals the loss of mammals, birds and chelonians in most of islands formed by the creation of Lake Balbina in the Brazilian state of Amazon.

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